[W]hen a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed
rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the
theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we
have no longer a Constitution; we are under the government of individual
men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is,
according to their own views of what it ought to mean. -- Justice
Curtis, Dred Scott v. Sandford (dissent)
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